P&S COUNCIL NEWS
June 14, 2006

P&S Retention and Recruitment Grant Proposals Due June 19

Proposals for the 2006 P&S Retention and Recruitment Grant program are now being accepted with a deadline of June 19. Funding for the program has been increased by the President's office to $45,000 for next year. Grant applications will be due June 19 and recipients will be announced July 28 with funding available for fall semester for programs that are selected. To view the Call for Proposals, go to http://www.pscouncil.iastate.edu/RandRproposals06.html

Best Awards Program Nominations Due June 15

A new one-time award honoring the best college or department / unit awards program on the ISU campus will be presented next fall by the P&S Council Awards Committee.

The deadline for nominations for the new award is June 15. The group selected for the honor will be notified in mid-August, and the open forum will be scheduled in early fall. More information is available online at http://www.pscouncil.iastate.edu/Awards.html

New Council Members Installed

Ten new members of the P&S Council were installed and three incumbents began new terms at the Council's annual reorganization meeting held on June 6. The meeting also marked the beginning of the terms of five new officers.

Representatives beginning new terms are:
Academic and Research -- Ann Bugler, Lynette Edsall, Jason Follett, Christine Gemignani (incumbent), Shirley Huck, Pam Owenson (incumbent), and Brent Swanson
Business and Finance -- Dan L. Woodin
Extension -- Brenda Schmitt
External Affairs -- Victor Miller
IPRT/Ames Lab -- Kerry Gibson
Student Affairs -- Andrew Alt and Karla Mae Elling (incumbent)

Officers for the coming year are Cathy Good, president; Teri Peterson, president-elect; Lynne Mumm, secretary; and Malisa Rader and Brenda Van Beek, executive committee members at large.
Officer profiles are available online at http://www.pscouncil.iastate.edu/2006PSElection/Officers.html

Committees Need P&S Representatives

The beginning of a new academic year in the fall also will mark the beginning of a new cycle for the standing committees that are part of the P&S Council and for several all-University committees that include P&S Council representatives.

The P&S Council standing committees include Council members and also non-council members who are interested in the activities of the Council. The standing committees are awards, representation, communications, policies and procedures, retention and recruitment, compensation and benefits, and peer advisory. All Council members serve on at least one of the committees, and most committees also include members who are not on the council.

P&S staff interested in serving on any of the above committees can find additional information about the committees under the Committees button on the P&S Council Web page: http://www.pscouncil.iastate.edu. Representation Committee Chair Tom Hillson, hillson@iastate.edu, can provide information on how to apply for committee service.
In addition to the Council's standing committees, the Council appoints P&S representatives to about 15 all-university committees. Those appointees are asked to make regular reports to the Council on the activities of their committees, and those reports are available online, linked from the following page: http://www.pscouncil.iastate.edu/UnivCommittees.html

Vacancies for P&S staff currently exist on three of the all-university committees: the Library Committee, the Traffic Appeals Board, and the P&S Professional Development Committee (Student Affairs representative). Anyone interested in serving on any of those committees also can contact the representation committee.

Next Council Meeting is June 26

The P&S Council will hold its next regular business meeting as part of a day-long retreat on Monday, June 26, at the Iowa 4-H Camping Center, west of Luther in Boone County. The business meeting is scheduled from 12 to 12:30 p.m. and is open to anyone interested in attending. The next scheduled meeting of the Council is on Aug. 3 in the Memorial Union Gallery.